Philosophy Quotes

"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind" "To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die." "Nothing is so absurd that it has not been said by one philosopher or another." "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others." "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct." "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom." "Hate is only a form of love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically" "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." "I’d rather not live like there isn’t a God, than die and find out there really is" "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "For if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?" "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness" "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you" "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster" "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" "Here are additional quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche:" "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on"